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carried on the seed and live over in the soil. This disease is 

 known to exist in Australia, East India and Japan. 



Take-all disease, also known as whitehead or footrot, attacks 

 the roots and the bases of grain plants, rotting the roots and 

 blackening the base of the stem. It infests wheat, and is also 

 known to infest oats, barley, rye and rice. The risk of introducing 

 both the above diseases lies in the importation of any seed which 

 could carry the spores. Therefore, under Quarantine Order No. 

 39, all wheat, barley, oats, rye and rice in the raw or uncleaned 

 or unprocessed state is prohibited from entry into the United 

 States and its Territories from India, Japan, Australia, Germany, 

 Belgium, Great Britain, Ireland and Brazil. All persons are 

 therefore warned not to import any of the above mentioned 

 grains, either by freight or even in small parcels by mail, as 

 under the regulations all such material will be seized and de- 

 stroyed. 



Under Quarantine Order No. 24, the Federal Horticultural 

 Board prohibits the importation, in the raw and unmanufactured 

 state, of seed and all other portions of Indian corn or maize 

 {Zea Mays) as well as the closely related plants, including all 

 species of Teosinte, Job's tears, and various others on account 

 of the downy mildews and Physoderma diseases of Indian corn. 

 Several small lots of corn seed have been seized and destroyed 

 lately at the postoffice and all future importations will meet a 

 like fate. 



Intestinal Parasites in Poultry 



(As many inquiries are received in the office of the Territorial 

 Veterinarian, the following extract from Dr. B. F. Kaupp's 

 "Diseases of Poultry" may prove of benefit to all poultry raisers 

 in the Territory.) 



"Intestinal parasites in small numbers infest all fowls with- 

 out doing perceptible harm, but there is always possibility that 

 conditions for their propagation may become so favorable as to 

 turn the mildest infestation into devastating parasitism. Indeed, 

 this very thing has occurred numberless times, and not a few 

 flocks have been entirely destroyed by it. The death of any bird 

 from the effects of internal parasites shauld be looked upon with 

 apprehension. 



"Flocks infested with large numbers of round worms are un- 

 profitable in the extreme. The birds are unthrifty, appear un- 

 kempt and suffer from diarrhea and constipation. Young fowls 

 are most severely affected. 



"Treatment. It is necessary to keep the yard and henhouse 

 clean, lime scattered on the floor and about the yard, and the 

 water for the birds kept in a clean fountain and the food in clean 

 troughs, made for the purpose and disinfected daily, and so con- 



